Yazid Huseyin

Yazid Huseyin (killed late April 1807) was an Admiral of the Ottoman Empire who fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1807. He died in the Battle of the Sea of Marmara with the Russian Navy.

Biography
Yazid Huseyin was an admiral (reis) of the Ottoman Empire, and during the Russo-Turkish War he traded with the city of Izmir with his trade fleet. In 1807 he attacked Admiral Fyodor Ushakov's Russian fleet in the Sea of Marmara as they retreated to safety at Sevastopol in the Black Sea, but Huseyin was killed when his fleet was destroyed.